Architect's Notes

  • The steadily increasing number and type of mobile devices that are used within enterprise environments has critical ramifications for enterprise application development. In developing new applications or maintaining existing ones, keep in mind how your architectural decisions will affect how easily the application can be mobilized.

  • An architecture well suited for accessing Web services from mobile applications is based on using proxy servers that intermediate between the mobile application and the remote Web services. Any protocol that meets the application's objectives (e.g., minimizing network bandwidth, network usage cost, power consumption, or XML parsing) can be used between the mobile application and the proxy server, even ...

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